This year, the Society for Socialist Studies turns fifty, and we look forward to welcoming a record number of colleagues to our annual conference at Congress 2017, hosted by Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario from May 30 – June 2 2017. The theme of the Conference is ‘Liberation Here and Now: Continuity and Change in Socialist …
Socialist Studies has a packed programme at the 2016 Congress of the Humanities in Calgary which opens on May 28. Reduced rate registration is open till March 31st. The programme, which includes three GERG panels, features over 50 Socialist Studies panels with 120 speakers.
The website of the International Working Group on Value Theory is back online. www.copejournal.com A new feature is volume 1 of our journal, Critique of Political Economy, available free of charge. Its contents are listed below. =========== Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 Editors’ Note: Introducing COPE Articles • David E. Kaun, Nature and Significance …
The Geopolitical Economy Research Group wishes to thank all the volunteers who helped organize the very successful inaugural GERG conference that took place in Winnipeg in September. The volunteers recently gathered for a party and received certificates for their hard work and creativity. They helped organize the conference and register delegates, took photos and videos, …
The Geopolitical Economy Research Group (GERG) held an international multi-disciplinary conference on ‘From the Thirty Years’ Crisis to Multipolarity: the Geopolitical Economy of the 21st Century World’ at the University of Manitoba from September 25 to 27, 2015. The conference included 138 presenters from over 30 countries. See the Photos
As our contribution to Culture Days Manitoba, guests are welcome at any of five keynote lectures at the GERG Inaugural Conference on what history can tell us about the multipolar 21st Century world. The lectures, at St John’s College, University of Manitoba, are open to the public. Attendance for a whole day (which includes lunch …
Welcome all members and visitors to the University of Manitoba Geopolitical Economy Research Group website. This is the inaugural post on the University of Manitoba Gerg website. With this inaugural post I will include a link to Alan Freeman’s Vimeo page which contains videoed presentations by institute directors Radhika Desai and Alan Freeman. See Alan …